{"id":1174,"date":"2011-08-08T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:31:34","slug":"best-exam-answer-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/best-exam-answer-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Exam Answer Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As a professor, I love it when students show that they are reading questions very carefully, and do not simply give the answer they assume the professor wants to hear. <a href=\"http:\/\/westernthm.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/08\/flotsam-and-jetsam-88\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s a great example shared by Marc Cortez<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/westernthm.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/observer-a-is-dead.jpg?w=540&amp;h=205\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a professor, I love it when students show that they are reading questions very carefully, and do not simply give the answer they assume the professor wants to hear. 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